The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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